http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Labor_harmony_at_a_Koch_company.html

J.

A quick Google search estimates the wealth of George Soros as 14.2 billion. The Koch brothers, put together, are estimated at 43 billion, or roughly 3x more. Even individually they’re worth more than he is.

So, given money talking, who’s got more influence?

J.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52176.html

Obama’s economic advisors and top-level cabinet are all members of the banking elite, drawn from the very big banks that supported his campaign and happen to be the beneficiaries of his economic policies.

Obama decided on not even so much as conferring with the Congress (the American People) on intervention in Libya, but instead sought the nod from the “international community” and the United Nations.

I won’t bother to mention that the forces we’re “helping” in Libya will no doubt be our enemies in the future, nor will I point out the hypocrisy in our own selective “humanitarian” interventions. It seems our good will only extends to countries with resources to exploit, providing the leaders can’t be bought off first.

In the meantime, Obama was in Brazil urging more offshore oil drilling so America can become their “number one customer” while his administration curtails drilling off our own coasts; and at the same time we need to intervene or “baby sit a civil war” in Libya because we need to reduce America’s dependence on “foreign oil.” All the while, of course, we sit on more than a trillion barrels of oil in one shale oil reserve alone, not to mention other vast reserves. Right here in America folks!

Seeing that unemployment hovers around 10% (officially) you would think there might be some economic as well as “national security” incentives to start drilling our own oil. You know, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and thereby the need for all this Middle East “humanitarianism” to keep the oil flowing, not for the benefit of the average Joe, but for the benefit of the oil companies.

Oh I forgot, we need to build millions of wind turbines, which environmentalists are now up-in-arms about because they happen to kill thousands upon thousands of birds each year. You can look for lawsuits stopping the development of wind power which, at best, supplies very little of our energy.

Energy that is still mostly supplied by coal-burning plants over 40 years old and transmitted along an aged infrastructure already susceptible to rolling blackouts, which is of course supposed to handle the extra load from all of these electric vehicles that will reduce carbon emissions by plugging into an electrical grid still mainly fueled by coal.

Not worried about any of this.

All we great thinkers combined should be able to abide
one more monopoly aside,
to save Sesame Street.

There’s lots of people happy, two brothers so sappy, designate if you are not dogs but statistics.
Buck up humanity..Yachts more to come.

The cash isn’t to blame, the palm Boss, the palm.
Pure political grease is not going away as the harbinger til the Alps fill up.